Epistemology of Optimization Models for Decision Making in Organizations

The epistemology of clinical decision-making

The goal of this thesis is to understand clinical decision-making regarding diagnosis and treatment and the role of different types of information, including measurements using technological instruments. From studying the history of medicine I conclude that the development of medical practice is intertwined with the development of science and scientific methods, and with the conceptions of dise...

Design of Decision-Making Organizations

S from the premise that individuals within an organization are fallible, this paper advances the study of relationships between the organization’s decision-making structure and its performance. We offer a general treatment that allows one to analyze the full range of organizational architectures between extreme centralized and decentralized forms (often referred to as hierarchies and polyarchie...

A hybrid decision making system using DEA and fuzzy models for supplier selection in the presence of multiple decision makers

Modeling contextual decision making in service organizations

Motivation Service organizations rely on efficient, high quality satisfaction of customer needs. In industries as diverse as call centers, banks, and healthcare, managers attempt to institute quality standards through standardized protocols, best practice guidelines, and workflow management systems. These devices offer a good understanding of the ideal process, but inadequately describe the con...

Decentralizing Decision Making in Modern Military Organizations

For organizations, the value of information is to improve decision making. In the military in particular, information’s role in warfare has always been to affect decisions at all levels – from strategic to tactical to put one’s forces in a position of advantage. In the information age, the cost of communicating such information has been so phenomenally reduced that it now becomes possible for i...